Chapter 432 Counting Money
Old Zhou went out for a stroll. It was unclear whether he was dazed or sobered by the sun, but when Manbao and Qian woke up, he sighed and asked, "How do you want to divide it?"
Qian slept for an hour and came up with a plan. She said, "My suggestion is that the eldest, second, and third sons each get 15 taels. The fourth son has a child and you're worried he'll use the money for a splurge. So, give him 10 taels for himself and the remaining 5 taels for each person, including Xi and Manbao."
Manbao didn't expect to hear his own name, and asked happily: "Do I have money too?"
Qian smiled and said, "Of course, you are a great contributor. Your brothers and sisters all have it, so how could you not have it?"
Everyone cultivates the land together. To be honest, the eldest child will suffer a little bit because the eldest and second children can both serve as half of the labor force.
However, such matters at home cannot be calculated clearly. By the time you try to calculate them clearly, the home will be in chaos.
Old Zhou touched his pipe and asked, "How much does this cost?"
Manbao started counting on her fingers when her mother started talking, and soon she happily told her father, "Not much, only seventy-five taels."
Old Zhoutou's pipe fell to the bed with a thud, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Then, how much do we two have left?"
"Not counting the copper coins or the money in the money box, there are still forty-five taels," Manbao comforted his father. "Don't be sad, Dad. When our wheat is planted this season, we will sell it to Mr. Bai and make another fortune."
Not only Old Zhou, but even Qian was stunned and asked quickly, "Can you still sell it at this price?"
"I don't know. I haven't had time to mention it to Mr. Bai yet. There's no rush, no rush."
Oh, how can we not be urgent?
Just as Old Zhou was about to get anxious, Manbao smiled and said, "Among the spring wheat, only our small farm and our family use new wheat seeds. I've made up my mind. If Mr. Bai doesn't want them, we'll carry them to the county town and sell them. The price will be a little higher than the seeds at the grain store."
Old Zhou immediately stopped feeling bad about the little money he had given out and said enthusiastically, "It doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, it can be the same as the price of seeds at the grain store."
Those grain shops are really rip-offs, charging so much for a bushel of seeds.
Seeing that Old Zhou agreed, Qian said, "It would be a shame to cut up such a good silver ingot. Let's have the eldest and second sons go into the city tomorrow and exchange it for smaller silver ingots. That way it will be easier to divide."
Manbao stretched out his little hand again and said happily, "Mother, I know. We don't have to take it to the county town to exchange it. We can just exchange it with Bai Shanbao and Master Bai."
"They have?"
"Yes, Bai Shanbao has a lot of five-liang silver ingots. He made them all from the silver he saved. They are very beautiful."
That was obtained from the silver shop. The quality was even better than the official silver. Bai Shanbao generously exchanged some with Manbao, and Master Bai exchanged the rest with her as well, and asked with a smile, "Why do you have so many five-liang silver ingots?"
"Good points."
Mr. Bai smiled and nodded. He was not interested in how her family's money would be divided. He was interested in how the money earned by the three of them would be divided.
So he asked Manbao directly, "How do you and Shanbao Erlang want to divide the money?"
Manbao then remembered that she still had a large sum of money that had not been divided up, and she immediately didn't want to go home. So she gave all the money to her elder and second brothers who had come with her, and asked them to take it home by themselves. She wanted to go find Bai Shanbao.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang wrapped the exchanged silver in cloth and stuffed it into the backpack. After hearing this, they put the backpack on their backs and reminded Manbao, "Second brother will go buy meat soon. Dad said he will kill a hen tonight. You must come back early for dinner."
"I know, I know, big brother and second brother, you two should leave quickly."
Mr. Bai also smiled and waved goodbye to the two brothers, then continued to ask Manbao, "With so much money, are you planning to spend it or save it?"
Manbao thought about it seriously and said, "I'll spend it and save it at the same time."
Mr. Bai immediately perked up and asked with a smile, "How do you plan to spend it?"
Manbao shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."
Mr. Bai: "...You haven't thought it through yet, but what about Erlang? Has he thought it through yet?"
Manbao said casually: "He wants to go to Yizhou."
Mr. Bai blinked, frowned, and asked, "What are you going to Yizhou for?"
Manbao said as a matter of course: "Let's play."
Mr. Bai: ...
"I heard Yizhou is a lot of fun," Manbao said, his heart was moved, and he murmured, "Why don't I go to Yizhou to play too?"
Mr. Bai felt that Mr. Zhuang had assigned too little homework to the three children, otherwise why would they want to go to Yizhou for fun?
He decided to have a good talk with Mr. Zhuang soon. He could take a day off in the second half of the day and make up for today's class tomorrow.
Manbao had already waved goodbye to Mr. Bai and ran next door to find Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang was sitting on the couch playing with his toys, while Bai Shanbao was fast asleep on the other side. Manbao ran in, subconsciously lowering his footsteps, and whispered to Bai Erlang, "Where's our money?"
Bai Erlang pointed to the next room and said, "They're all over there."
He couldn't help but complain, "You are so slow. Shanbao and I have counted the money three times."
Manbao felt very sorry. She glanced at Bai Shanbao who was sleeping, and her eyes immediately lit up. She whispered, "Then I'll go over and count too."
Bai Erlang waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Go ahead. I don't want to see any money right now. It's not fun."
Manbao ran to the next room quickly. Daji, who was dozing at the door, raised his eyelids, looked at her, and closed his eyes again.
When Manbao pushed the door open, he saw that the silver that was originally in the box had been divided into two piles on the ground. The silvery-white light became even brighter under the sunlight.
Manbao couldn't help but exclaim "Wow", rushed over to hug Yinzi and giggled, not caring about the warm sunlight coming in from the window.
Manbao saw the mat thrown aside, pulled it over, sat cross-legged on it, and started counting money.
She loves counting money the most, especially her own money. Whenever she has time in the evening, or after dinner when she doesn't want to go out to play or sleep, she will take out her money box and count the money.
And counting silver is obviously more comfortable and joyful than counting copper coins.
Because the silver ingot is big enough and more beautiful.
Manbao slapped the silver ingot in his hand aside, counted to one, and then reached out to touch the second one...
Listening to the sound of "one, two, three, four" coming from the room... Daji couldn't help but shook his head and smiled, and shrank back under the eaves, just avoiding the sunlight.
(End of this chapter)
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